Posted on 04/09/2020 3:20:44 PM PDT by Rebelbase
Found this in some blog comments:
"Some smart people have analyzed the toilet paper hoarding and concluded it isn’t that at all. Their view is that there are two “channels” of TP production – commercial and domestic. The TP manufactured for commercial purposes is more utilitarian and less luxurious, is made to fit more industrial dispensing methods and is consumed by the pallet. Domestic TP is designed to appeal to one’s sense of comfort and luxury, a single roll at a time and is available in small multi-roll packs, generally.
Only a few manufacturers produce for both demand streams, and there is no simple conversion of one stream into the other to meet fluxuating demand. The result is that people are no longer needing to use TP when they’re out and about at work, at school, shopping, all the usual things. Instead, they’re confined to their homes and the vast majority of TP demand is now placed on the domestic stream.
This isn’t actually a hoarding phenomenon, with people cramming closets and storage units full of multi-packs of domestic TP rolls. Nor are they using more TP than usual. Instead, they’re NOT using the abundant supply of commercial TP because they’re not in the usual places to need to do so.
Eventually, the production of TP for the domestic stream could ramp up to meet the demand, but manufacturers need to anticipate whether things will return to normal before that might happen. That would leave an over-supply for a diminished domestic demand just as people are back to consuming the TP in the commercial stream.
Supply and demand will always come into balace over time.
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Yeah, well, my son was house hunting last week and one house we looked at had many large packages of tp in the closet.
So, yeah, people are hoarding it.
“This isn’t actually a hoarding phenomenon, with people cramming closets and storage units full of multi-packs of domestic TP rolls.”
Simply not true. Some are doing exactly that.
They expect to make money off of selling it while supply is short.
Is it the largest part of this? Not sure.
Yep. Do they still sell it in the 4 roll packs? We buy
paper towels the same way. Bulk buy and forget it for a
few months.
Then explain people buying pallets full when they won’t use that in years
Yes the two track system makes it tougher to catch up but people have gone nuts
No, that’s not it. Due to restaurants and fast food places being closed, the shortage of toilet paper is due to a lot of people eating their own cooking.
The owner of the website is a commodities trader who lives on a boat with his family. He and another guy run an online investment school a few hours a day. He correctly predicted the market meltdown in February and his entire class divested from the market into cash on Feb. 24.
The hoarding started the day after the NBA pulled the plug on the season. The NCAA followed suit the next day. That got people’s attention.
I swung by Walmart today. The toilet paper aisle was fully stocked today. Household paper goods of all kinds to be had. The hoarding phase is over at least around here.
Are you wiping with leaves now?
Both Costco and Aldi had large supplies of TP yesterday. The TP run seems to be mostly over at least for my area (NE Florida) of the country.
TP has two sides. Use them both to save usage.
It drives me crazy when even conservatives can’t get that through their skulls
It’s the same story with milk. Home use milk is in short supply while industrial milk is being dumped.
Hi.
Went to Walmart today in St. Pete 34th St. S. had plenty of tp.
No isopropyl, but plenty aloe Vera.
5.56mm
You remind me of the guy who stood at a timeclock until it was perfectly aligned with quitting time.
Without knowing how long you will be confined to your home, whether or not you will be allowed to shop, whether or not the supply chain will hold, or whether or not stores will even be open, stocking up on a 2 to 4 month supply makes perfect sense.
But nobody takes the time to figure out how many rolls that means, and since TP doesn’t spoil, is cheap, and will eventually be used, the sensible thing is to buy more than enough. So a few people do that, and everyone follows.
Perhaps the TP “run” could have been avoided with communication that stores would be open, but who would believe it?
I personally figured we’d all be in total lockdown for 2 weeks, and was surprised grocery shopping is still allowed.
Panic does that.
Yes, the production matters. But some suppliers are making up for it by offering commercial grade.
There IS hoarding going on, nd it’s partly driven indeed by more need for personal TP.
BUT there is also scalping going on. People are buying all they can and sell it to desperate people for jacked up prices in the parking lot. Yes, this is happening.
THE “purchase limit” DOESNT WORK. “Price-gouging” needs to happen. The nonsense limits don’t track who is buying how many at different times and places. It’s BS. Stores SHOULD raise prices so some of us have. Chance to buy it when we need it!
This has been constant problem for me the last few weeks.
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